Hence it is vital that banks carry bigger safety buffers of capital and liquid assets.
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In a speech on March 31st, Mr King said that banks would in future have to hold more capital and liquid assets.
The Unburnable carbon 2013: Wasted Capital and Stranded Assets report says the listed companies analysed own 762 billion tonnes of CO2 in the form of coal, oil and gas.
The higher the return on capital which he defines as pretax operating profit divided by the sum of net working capital and net fixed assets the more effectively a company is using its capital to generate profit.
The other big winners in financial services in 2009 will be those best able to mobilise capital and spot undervalued assets.
Commodity futures are capital assets and get taxed as if they were 60% long term and 40% short term, regardless of how long you hold the positions.
To state the obvious, capital assets and consumer goods prices rise and fall all the time, and their fluctuations are essential for telling the markets what economic concepts should receive capital in abundance, and which ones should be starved of it.
But with the economic outlook remaining cloudy and mounting regulatory pressure to build capital and curtail risky assets, banks might be forced to make some tough calls on which loans they will refinance or restructure, according to Benjamin Schrag, vice president of business development at Kurtzman Carson Consultants, which provides administrative support solutions to companies through their corporate restructuring process.
Paul Miller of Friedman Billings Ramsey, an investment bank, says a government bad bank can pay more for assets than a private investor because its cost of funds is irrelevant, it needs no capital and can hold the assets to maturity.
Promoting capital freedom that is, the right to acquire and exchange titles to capital assets would allow private individuals a wider range of investment choices and limit the power of state officials.
Because capital is usually, and legitimately, a small percentage of assets, capital can easily go to zero and a perfectly sound institution can be declared insolvent and taken over by its insurer or some other government agencies.
Au set up a general ledger for PLP to categorize and account for all transactions affecting the partnership assets and Capital accounts 10 as well as ledger income beginning in 1999. accounts were established for each partner to show distributions to each partner, income received by the partnership, and expenses incurred by the partnership.
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Changing them requires skill, patience, courage, imagination, patient capital and a range of assets.
These are measurable benefits that translate directly into lower costs of capital and higher returns on assets.
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Investment in plant, equipment and other capital assets is growing at rates not seen since the runaway years of 1993-94.
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Market participants are adjusting, making disclosures, raising capital and re-pricing assets.
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Under capital gains tax rules, such plants are "wasting assets" and exempt from capital gains.
The financial subplot of the corporate playscript describes how the company uses its assets and capital to generate returns.
The move was made as European insurers face increasing pressure at home to boost capital and dispose non-core assets.
Prices have collapsed and return on capital assets industry-wide hovers at just 4%.
You were sitting on assets and capital that were being misallocated, indeed that had to be reallocated to take advantage of the new, superior conditions.
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But that will depend on future capital charges for cleared and uncleared assets and the precise structure of trading venues, which are still not known.
The shared value economy is shifting us away from only thinking about assets, capital and traded goods to repositioning capitalism for what the law of comparative advantage originally intended: The holistic betterment of society.
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There are also special rules for artwork, real estate and other assets, especially as they relate to capital losses and carry forwards but those are way beyond the scope of this piece.
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It would require banks with assets between 50 and 500 billion to have capital equal to 8 percent of those assets.
Kalamazoo has a 14% capital ratio and 39% of its assets in cash and securities.
Imaginative shuffling of assets and a capital injection saved the group just over a year ago.
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Tax hikes that reduce investor incentives and cause capital flight into unproductive assets.
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